This book provides an account of the progress being made in the field of the modeling and control of lightweight flexible manipulator systems. It covers the main issues in system simulation and modeling, classical and advanced control and soft computing control.<br><br>For each section it gives an overview of the problem as well as a review of the current thinking. It also looks at algorithm development and evaluation, software development for computer implementation of the algorithm, verification and assessment of the results, and there are references for further reading.